KARACHI, March 26 Habib Bank Limited (HBL) will face Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) in the inaugural match of the Olympian Iftikhar Syed Inter-departmental Hockey Festival to be played under floodlights at the Iftikhar Syed Hockey Academy ground at 7.30pm on Sunday.

The tournament, to be played on a single-league basis, features four teams, namely, HBL, SSGC, Port Qasim Authority (PQA) and Pakistan Navy.

Syed Muzzamil Qureshi, MPA from Gulshan-i-Iqbal, will be the chief guest on the opening day. The event concludes on April 1.